GO WEST

posted on June 26th, 2021 at 5:18 PM by Steven Stanley

Like its Motel 66 companion piece Head East, The Group Rep’s Go West offers L.A. audiences six short plays performed under NoHo skies, an evening of live theater worth checking out if only to quench a thirst left by what has seemed like an endless fifteen months without.
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HEAD EAST

posted on June 20th, 2021 at 4:38 PM by Steven Stanley

Theatergoers eager for an experience that feels both comfortingly familiar and excitingly new after a fifteen-month hiatus from live entertainment can now Head East (or Go West on alternate nights) for an evening of six short plays performed under NoHo skies in The Yard, the Group Rep’s newly constructed outdoor space next door to the membership company’s longtime home.
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TELL HIM IT’S JACKIE

posted on May 9th, 2021 at 10:02 AM by Steven Stanley

Kait Haire makes for an incandescent, captivating Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in Tom Dugan’s absorbing, elucidating Tell Him It’s Jackie, now playing live under the stars at the aptly named Dugan’s Backyard Playhouse in Woodland Hills.
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posted in San Fernando Valley, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

NEXT TO NORMAL

posted on April 18th, 2021 at 10:12 AM by Steven Stanley

Live theater is back, and what a thrill that is, even viewed at a distance from the safety of one’s car outside Pasadena’s Gamble House, with Lineage Performing Arts Center’s superbly performed, ingeniously directed, imaginatively choreographed open-air staging of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Next To Normal.
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VIRTUAL PRODUCTION REVIEWS

posted on April 12th, 2021 at 11:40 PM by Steven Stanley

URINETOWN THE (VIRTUAL) MUSICAL
MSD Productions
July 30, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10223350838252834

SWEAT
Chance Theater in association with Morgan-Wixson Theatre
June 24, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10223147561731048 

THE LAST FIVE YEARS
International City Theatre
June 5, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10223022841733126

REYKJAVIK
The Road Theatre Company
May 14, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222887688954391

ZERO HOUR
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre
May 11, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222862867733876

THE STORY OF MY LIFE
Chance Theater
May 7, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222831241783247 

I DO! I DO!
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre
May 2, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222802637068147

SLOW FOOD
International  City Theatre
April 29, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222788400392239

UNDERNEATH THE FREEWAYS OF LOS ANGELES
Echo Theater Company
April 2, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222605649743587

THIS BITTER EARTH
The Road Theatre Company
March 26, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222559039338356

PRIVATE LIVES
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre
March 16, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222492705880061

SPRING AWAKENING
MSG Productions
February 26, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222366094394853

DADDY LONG LEGS
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre
February 20, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222328792582331

ART
International City Theatre
February 17, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222305835248412

FRANKENSTEIN THE MUSICAL
GCT Theatricals
February 12, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222267037558494

SANTASIA
December 24, 2020
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10221847669354551

CONEY ISLAND CHRISTMAS
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre
December 8, 2020
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10221731935181269

CHESS THE MUSICAL
GCT Theatricals
September 26, 2020
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10221234905555839

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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

posted on March 9th, 2020 at 6:44 PM by Steven Stanley

There’s probably no more surefire musical-comedy crowd-pleaser than Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s Little Shop Of Horrors, proof positive of which can be found in Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s pitch-perfect revival of the 1982 cult classic.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

posted on March 8th, 2020 at 10:36 AM by Steven Stanley

A Noise Within makes theatrical magic for audiences of all ages in their absolutely captivating revival of Eva Le Gallienne and Florida Friebus’s 1933 Broadway adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland.
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posted in Pasadena, Play With Songs, Theater Review, WOW!

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE

posted on March 7th, 2020 at 10:25 AM by Steven Stanley

Still going strong in its 98th season, Whittier Community Theater entertains loyal locals with a suspenseful, somewhat slow-paced, but mostly fine production of Agatha Christie’s mystery classic And Then There Were None.
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posted in Classic Play, Gateway Cities, Theater Review

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